Introduction: Reforming the international system from the top : a Leaders' 20 Summit / Andrew F. Cooper and John English -- 1. Making change happen at the global level / Barry Carin and Gordon Smith -- 2. Anticipating the future : a political agenda for global economic governance / Colin I Bradford, Jr. -- 3. A Leaders' 20 Summit? / Angel Gurria -- 4. Multilateralism and the limits of global governance / Richard Higgott -- 5. Balancing act : Japan's strategy in global and regional financial governance / Saori N. Katada -- 6. The political economy of dissent : global publics after Cancún / Daniel Drache -- 7. Toward multilateral reform : the G20's contribution / John J. Kirton -- 8. On sherpas and coolies : the L20 and non-Brahmanical futures / Yoginder K. Alagh -- 9. China's evolving global view / Yu Yongdin -- 10. Brazil's multiple forms of external engagement : foreign policy dilemmas / Ricardo U. Sennes and Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa -- 11. South Africa : beyond the impasse in global governance / Ian Taylor -- 12. The L20 and the restructuring of the international economic order : an Egyptian perspective / Abdel Monem Said Aly -- 13. Government networks, world order, and the L20 / Anne-Marie Slaughter -- 14. The L20 in the twenty-first century / Ramesh Thakur and Andrew S. Thompson.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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